Watch Jay Reatard's Final Interview

Vice’s New Garage Explosion, Part 1 has surfaced, and it includes the late garage-rock firebrand Jay Reatard’s final interview.

Reatard is just one of the many artists who weigh in on the state of garage rock in the 25-minute documentary. As Vice notes, “To find out what American garage rock looks like (and to know what it’s like to be in an independent band) right now, VBS toted a bunch of cameras around the USA and found a scene that was vibrant, loud, eloquent, fucked up, and nearly impossible to define. The musicians, artists, writers, deejays and label owners that we talked to could only be united by a single common thread—their commitment to music that they enjoyed, on their terms, at whatever cost necessary (or, in some cases, unnecessary).”